Improvement in reclining and rocking chairs



I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL .HAYWARD, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOETO HIMSELF, AND LUTHER E. KIMBALL,OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RECLINING AND ROCKING CHAIRS. I

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 110,653, dated January3, 1871.

To all whom it may concern..-

Beit known that I, SAMUEL HAYWARD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Reclining and Rocking Chairs, of which the following,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to a peculiar construction of the frame of thechair, by which it is made available as a reclining-chair or as arocking-chair, Without the employment of the objectionable curvedrockers in -conilnon use on the bottoms of rocking-chairs, and itconsists in so constructing the frame of the chair that the back, seat,and front legs of the chair shall be rigidly connected, and attachingthereto in a peculiar manner the back, leg, and arm of the chair, madefrom one piece of metal, and so formed and shaped as that when securedto the back of the chair it shall serve as a leg and arm, the arm beingso constructed as to serve as a spring, the contraction and expansion ofwhich will permit the back and seat of the chair to rock back and forthas the body of the person yseated therein is moved backward and forward,the frame of the chair Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevation illustrating a modication. l

In the drawings, A A are the side frames of the chair, connectedtogether in any suitable manner, and so shaped as to forni the sides ofthe back and seat, and alsoto serve as the front legs of the chair. B isthe upholstering of the back, and C the seat. D is the back ing motionto the body ofthe chai-r, the same pivoting "upon the bottom of thefront leg.

E is a tie for holding the back leg in its proper position in relationto' the front leg, and also serves as a spring to assist in giving therocking motion to the chair.

I-conteniplate in some cases connecting the lowerends of the front andback legs by means of a shoe, F, as shown in Fig. 3, the legs of thechair being so connected to said shoe that while the shoe remainsstationary upon the floor the chair may be rocked or tilted, the body ofthe chair pivoting uponthe pin d, and the rear leg upon the pin e, in aperfectly ohvious manner.

\Vhat I claim as .my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

l. Arocking or reclining chair constructed in such a manner that theback, front legs, and seat are rigidly connected together, when soarranged upon elastic back legs asv to pivot uponthe bottom of the frontlegs, substantially as described.

2. The leg and arm D of a chair, made in one piece, when the arm is soformed *as to kserve as a spring, substantially as described.

3.- The spring-tie E, in combination .with the leg and arm D,constructed and operating substantially as described.

Executed at Boston.

SAMUEL HAYWARD.

Witnesses:

N. C. LOMBARD, LUTHER E KIMBALL

